We might think of flowers in terms of their colour and scent, but what about their temperature? A new review in Annals of Botany looks at the thermal ecology of flowers. In the paper Casper van der Kooi and colleagues...
Co-flowering species may undergo interspecific hybridization if they are closely related and share pollinators. However, a series of reproductive barriers between species can prevent interspecific gene flow, making...
Functionality of marcescent corollas Persistence of withered corollas after anthesis (βcorolla marcescenceβ) is widespread in angiosperms, yet its functional significance does not seem to have been explored. Herrera...